MEDICAL DEPARTMEITT. 



s"3r:M::PT03vns oif iDisE.£i.sES. 



Remarks.— In preparing "Symptoms" I have carefully given all diseases 

 that any person is liable not to be familiar with. There are some few common 

 complaints, that " tackle " us without giving symptoms or warning, that I have 

 omitted A man would not need to be told that he had the toothache or earache, 

 or what the symptoms are. He would be liable to find it out very suddenly 

 without consulting any book or doctor. Some such simple diseases I have 

 omitted in "Symptoms." 



ABORTION OR MISCARRIAGE.— When a woman in the family 

 way throws off the contents of her womb, or loses her child, during the first 

 six months, the accident is a m,iscarrmge, or abortion; when the same thing 

 happens during the last three months of her term, it is a premature labor. 



Symptoms. — If abortion occur during the first month after conception, the 

 symptoms may not attract much attention, or may be regarded only as an 

 irregularity of menstruation. Occurring at later periods, it is frequently indi- 

 cated by some feverishness, coldness of the feet and legs, a puffed-up condition 

 of the eye-lids with purplish discolorations, shooting pains in the breasts, 

 which become soft, pains in the back, boaring-down pains in the lower part of 

 the bowels, which oome and go, and at length take the character of real labor 

 pains. As these pains increase, blood begins to appear, and, sooner or later, 

 the bag of water breaks, and the fetus is thrcnvn off. 



Causes.— These are very numerous. Some of the principal are, displace- 

 ment of the womb; ulceration of its neck; syphilitic disease of the fetus 

 received from the parent; too much exercise; heavy Kfting; falls, particularly 

 when the woman comes down upon the feet, and is heavily jarred; emetics; 

 powerful purges; and too much nuptial indulgence. Remedy, pages 

 258, 259, 260, 261. 



AGUE. — The popular English name for Intermittent Fever. Ague i» 

 principally applied to the cold stage. The whole disease Is commonly called 

 Fever and Ague. 



Symptoms. — This fever consists of various fits or paroxysms, each of which 

 is made up of three stages or successions of symptoms. These stages are the 

 eold, the hot, and the sweating stages. "When the sweating stage is finished, 

 the patient is free of complaint, or the disease intermits till a future period, 

 when the same stages as before succeed each other. The time during which 

 the patient is free of the disease varies in different kinds of intermittent fever, 

 and gives its name and character to the disease. If the stages run through 

 iheir course every day, it is called a quotidian ague; if they begin again every 

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